Howdy All,<br><br>Is it possible to un-LVM-ify a partition?<br><br>I have a 500G disk that used to be in a desktop machine I used on a regular basis. So there's a LOT of stuff on the disk, dating back years. The disk consists of one boot partition, and a LVM containing two additional partitions, a 20G and a 460G.<br>
<br>I want to use this disk as an external disk in a USB enclosure for backing stuff up. The only issue is, with LVM it's not "plug and go" - you have to plug it in, and then as root run vgchange to make the LVM-based partitions visible. Is there some way I can "remove the LVM wrapper" around the 460G partition? If, for example, I were to somehow find the exact beginning and ending sectors of my 460G partition, could I use the LVM admin tool to remove the volume, then create a primary partition with those beginning and ending sectors?<br>
<br>While I can assemble an array of disks of various sizes to copy all my data over and just regenerate the partition, I'd like to avoid doing so if possible.<br><br>Cheers,<br>-JK<br>